Why can't soccer coaches be happy?

Mike Stobe/Getty ImagesRed Bulls coach Juan Carlos Osorio ripped his team for giving up a goal in a 4-1 victory.

You watch coaches rail at referees during a game and then complain about calls during postgame press conferences. Their television interviews always seem to focus on the things their team did wrong.

And in the majority of cases, their team won.

Which begs the question: Can a coach at the highest level ever be happy?

The pressure to win, not to mention the need to advance as far as possible in every tournament to maximize revenue to pay exorbitant salaries or enormous club debt, seems to have taken the joy out of coaching.

Top coaches such as Alex Ferguson, Jose Mourinho and Arsene Wenger, who win the majority of their games, are constantly harping on the negative. Even in victory, their teams never seem to give up a goal that didn't come from a mistake. No goal taken is ever the result of a creative play or a brilliant strike by the other team.

This only seems relevant now after listening to Red Bulls coach Juan Carlos Osorio following the team's recent 4-1 dismantling of the San Jose Earthquakes. While not expecting Osorio to heap glowing praise on his players after beating a bad team, it was surprising that several of his earliest remarks criticized the team for allowing a goal in the final minute of the first half.

And the Red Bulls were leading 4-0 at the time.

A couple of players confided that Osorio was furious at halftime and gave the team an earful.

When asked about it a number of days later, Osorio said that no lead is safe, and that a perfect example came in the Red Bulls' previous home game, when D.C. United scored in the final minute and again in stoppage time to turn what looked like a sure 2-1 loss into a 3-2 victory.

Point taken, but there is a big difference between a tired team that had made all its substitutions trying to hang on to a one-goal lead in the final moments, and a team with a four-goal lead that still had three opportunities to add fresh legs to the game.

The point is, at the professional level, winning seems to have become more of a relief of not losing rather than a satisfying moment of achieving something through effort and teamwork.

And if you can't take joy in that, what's the point of coaching? You might as well be a referee.

INJURY UPDATE 1

Red Bulls defender Carlos Johnson, who broke his left foot on a tackle by Dynamo midfielder Stuart Holden in the first half of Saturday night's 1-1 tie at Giants Stadium, will be out six to eight weeks.

That will likely mean rookie Jeremy Hall will become the starter at right back beginning Wednesday night in Washington when the Red Bulls play D.C. United in a U.S. Open Cup play-in game at RFK Stadium.

The winner will advance to the Round of 16, which begins June 30.

INJURY UPDATE 2

What had the look of a serious injury turned out to be much better news for Sky Blue FC.

Late in Saturday night's 1-0 loss to the Los Angeles Sol in Carson, Calif., Sky Blue forward Natasha Kai collided with Sol goalie Karina LeBlanc and was taken off the field on a stretcher.

Monday, Sky Blue coach Ian Sawyers said Kai suffered a quad contusion and is questionable for Saturday's game at Washington, which will conclude the team's five-game road trip.

The other Women's Professional Soccer news of the day came out of Philadelphia where, a week after Major League Soccer's Philadelphia expansion franchise announced its name and colors, its WPS counterpart did the same.

The Independence, wearing a combination of yellow, steel gray and light blue, will become the league's eighth franchise next season. The unveiling of the logo and an announcement on player signings is scheduled for July.